Sopapillas are a fried dough often served as dessert in Tex-Mex restaurants and are very beloved in New Mexico. They can be coated in cinnamon sugar, as ours are, or dusted with confectioners ...

Eating one of these Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars, (which can also be called Churro Cheesecake Bars) is like biting into a sweet, cinnamon-coated churro, only to find a creamy pocket of cheesecake inside.